“Illusions are more common than changes in fortune”

— Franz Kafka , book The Castle

Source: The Castle

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author 1883–1924

Diphilus Athenian poet of New Comedy

Fragment 23
Fabulae Incertae

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 845.

Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) Hungarian-British author and journalist

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 57, “Becoming Philosophical” (p. 226)

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 282
Sentences

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus

LXII
Carmina

Aeschylus The Libation Bearers

Variant translation: Success is man's god.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 59

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